Rumours abound that Bethesda may have cancelled Human Head's Prey 2, the FPS sequel that we last saw at both Gamescom and Bethesda's BFG Showcase in 2011. On each occasion, Prey 2 was looking in fine shape, so a potential cancellation could come as something of a shock.

According to an inside source in a report on Dutch site PS Focus (posted on NeoGAF), intel has been dug up claiming that a Prey 2 presentation scheduled for GDC earlier this month was pulled, as the game had reportedly been shelved by Bethesda. If true, an official announcement is expected next week.

"Yes, Zenimax forced us to pull all Prey 2 related talks from GDC. I'm pretty devastated by the news. This was to be my first conf talk," Human Head's Lead Programmer, Brian Karis tweeted prior to GDC. Bethesda has yet to comment on the rumours surrounding Prey 2.

This coming from the guys that published WET (I liked the game but it wasn't exactly a hit)

Prey 2 looked promising, I was however severely annoyed that it shared no characteristics of the original and still held the Prey title I feel like it should've been given its whole own title and just referenced that it tied to the Prey universe. It compares to calling a NFS style game Gran Turismo 6.